2: The Disenchanted Mind: Victim Melancholy in Wolfgang Hildesheimer’s Tynset and Masante

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: In Defense of Melancholy 1
5. 1: The Diseased Imagination: Perpetrator Melancholy in Günter Grass’s Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke and Beim Häuten der Zwiebel 35
6. 2: The Disenchanted Mind: Victim Melancholy in Wolfgang Hildesheimer’s Tynset and Masante 76
7. 3: The Feminine Holocaust: Gender, Melancholy, and Memory in Peter Weiss’s Die Ästhetik des Widerstands 110
8. 4: From the Weltschmerz of the Postwar Penitent to Capitalism and the “Racial Century”: Melancholy Diversity in W. G. Sebald’s Work 145
9. Epilogue: Death of the Male Melancholy Genius: From Vergangenheitsbewältigung to Vergangenheitsbewirtschaftung in Iris Hanika’s Das Eigentliche 185
10. Bibliography 201
11. Index 223